May 2015

Volume 1, Issue 1

Newsletter Editor:

Alison Bianchi,

The University of Iowa

International Sociological

Association

Research Committee 42:

Social Psychology

The International

Social Psychologist

MESSAGE FROM THE

CHAIR:

DR. CLARA SABBAGH,

THE UNIVERSITY OF

HAIFA

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

SPQ Special Issue Call

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Contents of Issue:

SP of Ed .................... 4

Award Winners! ....... 5

Book Announcement . 6

Conferences .............. 7

Study of Castes ......... 8

Related Networks ..... 9

Greetings from the

Editor ………………….10

Dear RC42 Members,

I hope this note finds you well and in good spirits!

This occasion gives me the opportunity to express again my gratitude for your confidence in me. I would also like to thank our (relatively) new RC42 Executive Board officers for their service: Past-President Guillermina Jasso (New York University, USA), Secretary-Treasurer Alison Bianchi (Iowa University, USA), Regional Representatives: for South Ameri-ca, Juan Carlos Castillo (Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile); Juha Klemelä, for Europe (Univerity of Turku, Finland); Charles Puttergill, for Africa (University of Pretoria, South Af-rica); and Larry Saha, for Oceania (Australian National Uni-versity, Australia). Our Newsletter Editor is Alison Bianchi. Together with this leading team of colleagues, I strive to fur-ther RC42's mission. (more on next page)

Message from the President, Continued ...

A couple of days ago I sent you the Call for Abstracts (deadline 30 September 2015 24:00 GMT) to be presented at the 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology that will be held in Vienna, Austria, July 10-14, 2016. For this occasion, our Research Committee offers a variety of social psycho-logical oriented sessions and a keynote session that will be held by Pro-fessor Karen Hegtvedt (Emory University, USA) (for more information about the sessions visit http://www.isa-sociology.org/forum-2016/rc/rc.php?n=RC42). We hope these activities will be able to establish a context for informal contact among RC42 members.

Moreover, I would like to announce that in this occasion, our RC will of-fer a new academic activity aimed at bringing together international young social psychological researchers. We will be offering an oppor-tunity for PhD students to present and discuss their research on social psychology in a constructive atmosphere where senior researchers as well as participants will provide mutual comments and feedback. The workshop will be led by Guillermina Jasso and Clara Sabbagh (application to this workshop is approached in the RC42 sessions' pro-gram; http://www.isa-sociology.org/forum-2016/rc/rc.php?n=RC42).

Finally, I am glad to announce the launch of the RC42's Newsletter in a new format. Its new design is meant to both disseminate and facilitate the interchange of international social psychological knowledge. Moreo-ver, this new design is meant to attract readers to be involved in our RC42 activities. I would especially like to thank Alison Bianchi for put-ting together the different materials and creating this awesome design as a platform for RC42's interchange of ideas and information. The newsletter includes a wide range of information - about relevant jour-nals, books, upcoming conferences, related research networks, and so on - Enjoy it!

Wishing you all the best for future endeavors!

Clara Sabbagh

RC42 President

This special issue provides an outlet for showcasing new methodological approaches ...

The special issue calls for papers that advance our understanding and application of quantitative applica-

tions and formulations, qualitative strategies and developments, and the use of mixed approaches to ad-

dress theoretically driven social psychological questions in new ways. We envision papers that:

Demonstrate the application of a method to a theoretical question in social psychology. The relation-

ship between theory and method could focus on how the method advances our theoretical under-

standing, or how the theoretical question has pushed the methodological advancement.

New methodological approaches in social psychology.

Application of a method from another field to address a social psychological issue.

Advancement and refinements in methodological applications currently used in social psychology.

Examples of topics might include: Use of media, including visual, electronic and social media to measure

social phenomena; Reflexive narratives, advances in conversation analysis, grounded theory, ethnogra-

phy, or discourse analysis; Network applications; Experimental advancements and extensions, including

field experiments and online experiments; Online survey techniques; Neuroscience applications; Meth-

odological problems/issues/debates as they relate to social psychological theory and empirical data, in-

cluding their limitations; New statistical approaches, e.g. Bayesian models, Response Surface Analysis,

etc.; Digital science applications; and Big data.

The deadline for submitting papers is December 15, 2015. The usual ASA requirements for submission

apply (see “Notice for Contributors”). Papers may be submitted at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spq.

Please indicate in a cover letter that you would like your submission to be considered for the special issue.

Prospective authors should feel free to communicate with the coeditors (rserpe@kent.edu or

jan.stets@ucr.edu) or special issue qualitative and quantitative editors Kathy Charmaz

(charmaz@sonoma.edu) and Jane Sell (j-sell@tamu.edu) about the appropriateness of their papers.

As social psychologists work to advance theory,

they often are limited by their methodological

toolbox. In response, researchers search for or

develop new methodological approaches. Im-

portantly, social psychologists have addressed

this issue from both quantitative and qualitative

orientations. Many theoretical questions also

have motivated the growing use of mixed-

methods. There has not been a “focused” outlet

for these methodological developments within

social psychology.

This special issue provides an outlet for showcas-

ing new methodological approaches, share how

methodologies commonly used in other disci-

plines can be adapted to social psychological in-

vestigations, and provide empirical examples of

the application of new methods for social psy-

chologists. The special issue will primarily include

manuscripts that focus on the link between social

psychological theory and methodological develop-

ments. As the focus is on methodological issues,

the manuscripts would not include a lengthy the-

oretical development, but rather outline the theo-

retical issues at stake and why the methodological

approach advances our empirical understanding

of the theory. The special issue will also provide

an outlet for research notes that demonstrate the

use of a methodological technique to address a

social psychological research question and would

be shorter.

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Call for Papers:

Special Issue of Social Psychology Quarterly

“Methodological Advances and Applications in

Social Psychology”

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Contents of Latest Issue:

Social Psychology of Education:

An International Journal

Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2015

ISSN: 1381-2890 (Print) 1573-1928 (Online)

Comparing cyberbullying and school bullying among school students: prevalence, gender, and grade

level differences

Noam Lapidot-Lefler, Michal Dolev-Cohen (Pages 1-16)

Mathematically gifted adolescent females’ mixed sentiment toward gender stereotypes

Chen-yao Kao (Pages 17-35)

The role that teachers play in overcoming the effects of stress and trauma on children’s social psy-

chological development: evidence from Northern Uganda

Alison S. Willis, Michael C. Nagel (Pages 37-54)

Between and within ethnic differences in strategic learning: a study of developmental mathematics

students

Carlton J. Fong, Linda Reichwein Zientek, Z. E. Yetkiner Ozel, J. M.Phelps (Pages 55-74)

Children’s social behaviour for learning (SBL): reported and observed social behaviours in contexts

of school and home

Laurel Fisher, Fiona Spencer (Pages 75-99)

The pivotal role of effort beliefs in mediating implicit theories of intelligence and achievement goals

and academic motivations

Dirk T. Tempelaar, Bart Rienties, Bas Giesbers, W. H. Gijselaers (Pages 101-120)

Children’s self-concept: parental school engagement and student–teacher relationships in rural and

urban Australia

Susana Gavidia-Payne, Bianca Denny, Kate Davis, A. Francis, M. Jackson ( Pages 121-136)

Differences in students’ school motivation: A latent class modelling approach

Hanke Korpershoek, Hans Kuyper, Greetje van der Werf (Pages 137-163)

How tracking structures attitudes towards ethnic out-groups and interethnic interactions in the

classroom: an ethnographic study in Belgium

Lore Van Praag, Simon Boone, Peter A. J. Stevens, M. Van Houtte (Pages 165-184)

Bullying affects more than feelings: the long-term implications of victimization on academic motiva-

tion in higher education

Adena Young-Jones, Sophie Fursa, Jacqueline S. Byrket, J. S. Sly (Pages 185-200)

An investigation into academic burnout among Taiwanese adolescents from the self-determination

theory perspective

Shu-Shen Shih (Pages 201-219)

THE COOLEY-MEAD

AWARD

The Cooley-Mead Award for Distin-guished Scholarship was established in 1978. In the following link, you fill find the full list of past award recipients including distinguished scholars such as George Homans (Harvard Uni-versity, 1980), Ervin Goffman (University of Pensylvannia, 1979) and Robert Merton (Columbia University, 1997)

ASA Section on Social Psychology's Cooley-Mead Award - Past Re-cipients can be found at:

http://www.asanet.org/sections/psycholo-gy_recipients_History.

SECTION SUPERSTARS!

AWARDS OF NOTE!

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The 2015 Cooley Mead Award will be

given to Dr. Murray Webster, Jr. (from

The University of North Carolina–

Charlotte) at the Annual Meeting of

the American Sociological Association.

Leonidas Cheliotis, London School of Economics and Political Science, has been awarded the 2015 Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award from the American Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (Critical Criminal Justice Section), as well as the 2014 Best Public Intellectual Special Issue Award from the US Council of Editors of Learned Journals for his guest-edited special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly on “Prison Realities: Views from Around the World”.

From the Authors:

Drs. Patricia Snell Herzog (The University of Arkansas)

and Heather Price (The University of Notre Dame) have a forthcoming book with Oxford University Press

on American Generosity, scheduled to release in Janu-ary 2016. Findings are from the Science of Generosity

initiative, combining a nationally representative survey of adult Americans with in-depth interviews and eth-

nographies of a subsample of survey respondents.

A distinguishing feature

of the book is its com-prehensive approach to

painting a big and ac-cessible picture of Amer-

ican generosity that an-swers the what, how

much, who, where, and why questions regarding

generous activities. We examine multiple dimen-

sions of resources, so-cial status characteris-

tics, regional cultural norms, different ap-

proaches to giving pro-

cesses, social-psychological orienta-

tions, and relational so-cial contexts of generos-

ity. The focus on the so-cial context of giving

culminates in a theoreti-cal model of resource-,

norm-, and identity-supported “spheres of

generosity,” which ripple outward in their reach to

giving targets.

We also offer practical

implications and sugges-tions for different kinds

of readers that flow from our findings. In the

conclusion, we offer tips for readers who are in-

terested in increasing their giving, parents

modeling and teaching giving to children,

spouses desiring giving alignment, and friends

and community mem-bers wanting to be more

supportive of other peo-

ple’s giving. We also of-fer fundraising-oriented

ideas for nonprofit, foundation, and religious

leaders, as well as aca-demic contributions to

interdisciplinary scholar-ship on generosity. The

book aims to contribute to public understanding

of generosity in America through rigorous, but

accessibly written, social scientific analyses.

FORTHCOMING BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

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Experimental Research in the Social Sciences:

The Past, Current Practice and the Future

TIME: June 12-13, 2015 PLACE: Cracow, Poland

HOST: Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Pedagogical University of Cracow (http://www.ifis.up.krakow.pl/)

LANGUAGE: English

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Martha Foschi, Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia (one of her experiment was used to illustrate experimental method in the worldwide known textbook by E. Babbie, 'The Practice of Social Research' ); Professor Murray Webster,

Society of Experimental Social Psychology

The 51st annual meeting of SESP will be held in the Mile High City of Denver, Colorado, at the Grand Hy-att Hotel - September 24-26, 2015.

http://www.sesp.org/confer.htm

International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) (http://www.isjr.org/conference/)

The University of Kent, United Kingdom; July 20-23, 2016

Psycho-Social Experiences of Scheduled Caste Students

at Higher Education Level in India

Dhaneswar Bhoi

PhD Scholar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai-400088. E-mail: dhaneswar.bhoi@gmail.com

Education in Indian tradition has not been open to all the downtrodden sections like Scheduled Castes1 (SCs). Even to-

day, they are the victims of isolation, untouchability, social stigmas, and the trap of the poverty in the society. With the protective

discrimination policy in place, few of them are getting education and very few of them do have access to higher education. Most

of the SC students are suffering from the problems, like discrimination, humiliation, deprivation, sub-ordination and domination

at different levels of education. On the way of exploring the psycho-social experiences, this study is looking at the patterns of

discrimination relating to humiliation, ill-treatment, stress and mental block experienced by the SC students at higher education

level in the State of India. This study is based on exploratory research; data triangulation is the method for the data collection.

Thematic analysis and descriptive statistics are the data analysis procedures for this study. The bitter psycho-social experiences

have a devastating effect on the academic achievements and performances of SC students at higher education level in the state of

India.

The bitter psycho-social experiences have a devastating affect/effect on the academic achievement and performance of

SC students at higher education level in the state of India. Most of the SC students have experienced different types of discrimi-

nation and they were also suffering the tyranny of untouchability and some social and educational restriction in their social as

well as in educational life which leads their life towards exclusivity in the education, low performances in the class and poor aca-

demic status which became/makes it more difficult for them to get in to the higher education and achieve the fellowship facilities

in the higher education sector. This study mainly talks about the psycho-emotional experiences of the scheduled castes students

which affect their educational achievement in the higher education level.

The scheduled castes are still suffering from social discrimination, untouchability, humiliation, subjugation subordina-

tion, domination and deprivation, in their social and educational premises. These aspects of psycho-social experiences brings to

notice that, the scheduled castes students are unable to do well in their higher education because of the castes based discrimina-

tion at the higher education level. The psycho-social experiences became the hindrances on the way of education instead of pro-

moting the education in the study area. The past psycho-social experiences which have made them slow in the learning process

are being threatened, instructed to sit in the last bench, being deprived from better opportunities; calling them by the name of

their caste, not allowing them to mingle with the students, not acknowledging their knowledge and talent. The psychological as-

pect becomes crucial here because after getting different types of discrimination, deprivation, and restriction, the SC students do

suffer with mental block, become less confident, and less concentrated about their study. Another aspect of the study is that the

psychological feelings like fear, crying, anger, depression, humiliation, isolation and the loneliness are attached to the actions of

the society. It happened with the SC students because education is a social institution and these norms are practised and are seen

to be appearing in the educational institutions.

The psycho-emotional problems including the caste based discriminations’ negatively impacts on their participation, per-

formances and achievements at present institutions as well as in their previous institutions as bitter experiences. Mostly, it has

negatively impacted their education, on the contrary, few of them opined that because of the caste based problems their will-

power got re-enforced and they decided to higher educate themselves so that they can fight against the difficulties in their lives

and as a whole in the society. Blindness of society towards SC community as if they are the lowest rank, has created hindrances

and acceptance to stay back by the students and to act accordingly what other high caste teachers and peer groups advise them.

The study, on the basis of empirical evidence, suggests that the authority of higher education should sensitise the psycho-

social issues which affect the education of scheduled castes at different levels of education. Make the students aware of their

rights to live in the society as well as in the educational institutions. The policy makers should give the remedial priority to the

psycho-social emotion which is a by product of social and educational discrimination process.

1Scheduled Castes: Article 341 of the Constitution of India defines as to who would be Scheduled Castes with respect to any

State or Union Territory. The Scheduled Castes means such castes, races or tribes or parts of or groups within such castes, races

or tribes as are deemed under article 341 to be Scheduled Castes for the purposes of Indian Constitution. The actual complete

listing of scheduled castes is made according to the Constitution Order, 1950.

RELATED NETWORKS

-European Association of Social Psychology (http://www.easp.eu/)

EASP is more than 45 years old (founded in 1966): More than 45 years in which EASP (formerly EAESP) grew from a household of only a few enthusiastic pioneers to a large family of about more than 1200 members.

-International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (http://www.iaccp.org/)

-Social Psychology Network (http://www.socialpsychology.org/) - is the largest educational site including relevant information about social psychology. It includes over 14,000 members worldwide.

-ScienceDaily - Social Psychology News - http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/mind_brain/social_psychology/

- IN THE NEWS - Social Psychology: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/keyword/social-psychology

INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL

ASSOCIATION:

The ISA was founded in 1949 under

the auspices of UNESCO. The goal of

the ISA is to represent sociologists

everywhere, regardless of their school

of thought, scientific approaches or

ideological opinion, and to advance

sociological knowledge throughout the

world. Its members come from 126

countries.

RESEARCH COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL

PSYCHOLOGY

(RC 42)

The aim of RC42 is to contribute to the

development of theory and research in

social psychology on an international

level, uniting professional and scientific

interests of its members to work togeth-

er on a local, regional, and international

level.

FROM THE EDITOR

Greetings, Illustrious Members of RC 42!

It is my pleasure to present our first newsletter edition (at least

the first for us)! Periodically, we will call for any contributions,

such as:

1. Upcoming conferences, calls for papers or grant opportu-

nities. 2. Reviews of conferences that would be of interest to RC42

members. 3. Reviews (up to 400 words) and recommendations of no-

table social psychological related books. In the case of rec-

ommendations, please write some words about the signifi-cance of the title.

4. Congratulatory notes, including: announcements of pro-motions, new positions, awards, honors, grants and other

achievements. 5. Recent activities (publications, presentations) that may

be of interest to the social psychological community.

6. Submissions about social psychological projects in pro-gress that may be of interest to the justice community (up

to 250 words). 7. Nominations of doctoral candidates (self nominations

are also welcomed who are willing to present their studies to the wider social psychological community (up to 300

words).

8. Submission of social psychological teaching materials (e.g. films, activities and syllabi) for both graduate and un-

dergraduate levels. Please write some words about the ways this material has been useful in your teaching.

However, feel free to send me anything having to do with In-

ternational Social Psychology at any time! My e-mail address is: alison-bianchi@uiowa.edu.

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